Industry Studies Dissertation AwardThe Industry Studies program is inviting submissions for the annual Dissertation Award competition. The goal of the prize is to reward outstanding doctoral research in the area of industry studies. Industry studies research demonstrates significant personal investment in developing an understanding of the markets, firms and institutions that characterize a particular industry. Generally, this involves the integration of direct observation with appropriate theory and analysis. The award is accompanied by a $1,500 honorarium for first prize and a $750 honorarium for second prize.

To be eligible for the competition, candidates must have completed a doctoral dissertation in economics, management, engineering, political science, or in a related or interdisciplinary field in the previous academic year.

Industry Studies Best Paper PrizeThis prize was awarded in 2006-2008 but has now been discontinued. Past winners are:

2008: Juha-Antti Lamberg, Helsinki University of Technology, and Henrikki Tikkanen, Helsinki School of Economics, "Changing Sources of Competitive Advantage: Cognition and Path Dependence in the Finnish Retail Industry 1945-1995;" and

Carrie R. Leana and Frits K. Pil, University of Pittsburgh, "Social Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Urban Public Schools"

Sonali K. Shah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development"

Honorable mentions were awarded to: Sebastian K. Fixson, University of Michigan, Young Ro, University of Michigan - Dearborn, and Jeffrey K. Liker, University of Michigan, "Modularisation and Outsourcing: Who Drives Whom? A study of generational sequences in the US automotive cockpit industry" and